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Gallant Fox would have made more money than the world's greatest money- winner?Ksar, the French horse ($335,-340)?if he had not been beaten in the Travers. Jim Dandy, California outsider, at 100 to i, beat him that day on a sodden track at-Saratoga. Someone had...
¶ Gallant Fox, undejected by his beating in the Travers: the Saratoga Cup in a majestic gallop, his seventh win in eight major races this season. His earnings now total $288,125.
¶ Jim Dandy, owned by Chaffee Earl, 22-year-old son of a California fruit tycoon, at 100 to 1: the Travers (oldest U. S. stake) on a sodden track at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., soundly beating three-year old champion Gallant Fox, at i to 2, and Harry Payne...
Rear Admiral Gary Travers Grayson, personal physician to President Wilson, returned from England, revealed that David Lloyd George had told him: "The outstanding figure in America politically, in my judgment, is Owen D. Young. I should not be surprised to see him Presi- dent before I die."*
At Belmont Park. Because the sport is ancient, its regulations basically unchanged, famous horse races seem to reflect the characteristics of the vicinities in which they are held. Oldest U. S. race is Saratoga's Travers, first run in 1864. Most socialite race is Kentucky's decorous